Universal mounting for hang rods



y 1942- I A. VANDERVELD 2,291,177

UNIVERSAL MOUNTING FOR HANGRODS Filed Feb. 24, 1941 AnTkori lam uvdaPatented July 28, 1942 UNIVERSAL MOUNTING FOR HANG RODS AnthonyVanderveld, Grand Rapids, Mich., assignor to Grand Rapids StoreEquipment Company, Grand Rapids, Mich, a corporation of MichiganApplication February 24, 1941, Serial No. 380,203

4 Claims.

This invention relates to a mounting for hangrods which in practice areused between spaced apart supporting end members or partitions indisplay store furniture cabinets.

Where a plurality of such cabinets are located in direct horizontalalinement and the space filled by the furniture is divided into aplurality of cabinet lengths, as by vertical partitions spaced at properdistances from each other and from the ends of the furniture, themounting of horizontal hangrods is simple and easy. But in cases wherethe furniture, one end to the other, is of a generally curved form,perhaps in the arc of a circle, and the front sides of the cabinets atwhich access to the merchandise held and displayed therein are eitherpresented in a convex orconcave form, the dividing partitions in suchcase are not parallel but are disposed at various angles with respect toeach other and in many cases with the angles different and not the same.It is to this condition which is met with in furnishing stores that thepresent invention is directed for providing a very simple, practical anduseful hangrod mounting applicable to whatever may be the angularcondition of two adjacent dividing partitions with respect to eachother.

With my invention the hangrod mounting is ofa novel construction andincludes a novel means for detachably holding and supporting the hangrodso that it may be removed if desirable or necessary. Also the immediatesupporting brackets attached to the ends or partitions of the storefurniture may be removed as, for example, in utilizing the cabinetstructure for filling with other store furniture accessories such asshelves, drawers and the like as may occur with changes of merchandiseat different seasons of the year to be carried and displayed.

To the ends stated, as well as others not at this time specificallyenumerated, I have made the invention described in the followingspecification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, inwhich,

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary horizontal section illustrating the hangrodmounting of my invention and looking down upon the hangrod supported ateach end by the mounting which I have devised.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical section showing, perhaps in anexaggerated form, the use of the hangrod mountings with two partitionsor ends of a cabinet unit located in vertical planes not parallel but inangular relation to each other.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through a mounting and anadjacent end of the hangrod inserted therein, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view with parts broken away and in section ofthe mounting of my invention.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the different figuresof the drawing.

In store furniture a cabinet chassis or carcass may be used which in asingle cabinet will comprise two spaced apart ends I with a base and topand with the back closed, the front being open or in some cases closedby doors which may be opened for access to the interior of the cabinet.In a line of such furniture along a wall there will be two ends and atspaced intervals between the ends vertical partitions dividing the spaceinto a series of cabinet sections. When the furniture is disposed in acurve, such ends or partitions I will be located in unparallel verticalplanes or at an angle to each other as indicated in Fig. 2.

With my invention flat metal brackets are attached in the upper part ofthe cabinet and to the inner sides of the ends or to the partitions inany cabinet or cabinet section, two of such brackets being used atsubstantially the same vertical height. Each of these brackets include aflat plate 2 attached to the end or partition I by screws. Said plate atits upper end is formed with an inwardly and upwardly inclined curvedsection 3 which terminates in an arc-shaped section 4, the axis of whichis horizontal. Over the brackets the immediate hang rod supports areadapted to be detachably placed and supported. Each of these supportscomprises a cylindrical ring 5, at one end provided with a continuousannular inwardly extending flange 6 and at the other end with acontinuous annular downwardly and outwardly tapered flange l, as bestshown in Fig. 4. Such hangrod immediate support may be hooked over theupper end of a bracket described, the inclined pointed flange 1 comingto and resting against the inclined section 3 of the bracket and theinner side of the drum 5 resting upon the curved terminal flange 4 (Fig.1).

The entrance opening for an end of a tubular hangrod 8 is surrounded bythe flange 6, such opening being greater in diameter than the exteriordiameter of the rod 3. With a rod 8 having each end portion receivedwithin one of the supports it is evident that the rod will rest at itslower side against the lower edges of the flanges 6 and that thehorizontal longitudinal axis of said rod 8 may be disposed at aconsiderable angle to the longitudinal axis of the support 5 as shown inFig. 2, or to both of such supports.

This construction while of simple form has proven very practical anduseful. A supporting member 5 may be hooked over its bracket, the othermember 5 slipped over an end of the hangrod 8, the opposite end of therod 8 inserted in the first member 5 and then the rod with the othermember 5 thereon lifted substantially to place and said member 5 hookedover the opposite bracket 2. The removal of the rod is quite as simple,direct and easy as is the attachment. Of course, the bracket plateportions 2 being secured to the ends or partitions I by screws may beremoved by drawing the screws if the cabinet space is to be used forotherpurposes than supr porting merchandise by hanging it-from the rods8. Such rods 8 generally are most used upon which to connect garmenthangers on which garments are held and suspended.

The invention is defined in the appended-claims and is to be consideredcomprehensive of all forms of structure coming within their scope.

I claim:

1. In a construction of the class described having two spaced apartvertical supports, a supporting device secured to each of the adjacentsides of said supports comprising, a bracket having a portion at itsupper end turned away from the support, and a cylindrical ring suspendedfrom each bracket and covering the same, whereby a rod extending betweenthe supports is adapted to have its ends received in the rings, thediameter of the rod being less than the entrance openings therefor inthe rings.

2. In a construction of the class described having a vertical support, arod mounting comprising a bracket having a body portion secured to aside of the support having an upper end portion turned away from saidsupport and provided at its upper end with a curved ledge and with adownwardly and inwardly inclined integral section between said ledge andthe body of the support, a ring of cylindrical form having aninclinedflange at one end located over said support with said flangeengaging said inclined connecting section and the ring resting upon saidcurved ledge, said ring having an open outer side through which the endof a rod may be insertedand whereby said rod may be located eitherperpendicular to the support or at angular positions away from suchperpendicular position.

3. In a construction of the class described having a vertical support, arod mounting comprising a bracket attached to one side of the support,and :a ring suspended from the upper portion of and covering the bracketand abutting against the "support, said 'ring'being readilyremovablefrom the bracket, and said r'ing'having an outeropenin'gthrd'ugh whichthe end of a rod may be inserted, as and for 'thepurposes described.

'4. Inaconstru'ction'of the class described hav- Y ing tw'o spaced"apart supporting panels and a ANTHONY VANDERVELD.

